František Chvalkovský

František Chvalkovsky (* June 30, 1885 in Jílové near Prague, † February 25, 1945 in Berlin) was a Czech diplomat and politician.

Activities

From 1927 to 1932 Chvalkovsky ambassador of Czechoslovakia in Berlin. From 1938, Foreign Minister of his country he represented Czechoslovakia in the negotiations that led to the first Vienna Award. He resigned after the Munich agreement for a close alignment of Czechoslovakia to the German Reich. In March 1939 he accompanied President Emil Hácha on his trip to Berlin that resulted in the destruction of the remainder of Czechoslovakia and the formation of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.

Chvalkovsky was Minister without Portfolio in the Protectorate Government and was from June 1939 Minister of the Protectorate in Berlin. As representatives of the protectorate government in Berlin, he was responsible only for the formal contact with the Reich Chancellery. All inquiries from other German authorities question the Protectorate were to be made over the Reich Protector in Prague. The Foreign Representation of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia was made by the German Federal Foreign Office. He remained on his increasingly influential looser items. The mission of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia was located in the Kurfürstendamm No 190/ 92 / corner Schlüterstraße.

On February 25, 1945, he died in an Allied bombing raid on Berlin killed.